Minor earthquake, 2.87 mag was detected near Pahala in Hawaii

A minor earthquake magnitude 2.87 (ml/mb) has occurred on Thursday, 41 km SSE of Pahala, Hawaii (25 miles). The epicenter was at a depth of 5.94 km (4 miles). Exact location, longitude -155.2916718° West, latitude 18.8710003° North, depth = 5.94 km. The temblor was picked up at 04:02:43 / 4:02 am (local time epicenter). Unique identifier: hv61816631. Ids that are associated to the event: hv61816631. Exact time and date of earthquake 29/06/17 / 2017-06-29 14:02:43 / June 29, 2017 @ 2:02 pm UTC/GMT.

Each year there are an estimated 1,300,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been two, in the last 10 days three, in the past 30 days seven and in the last 365 days eighty-four earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that has struck near. Earthquakes 2.5 to 2.9 are often felt, but only causes minor damage.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This information comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Date-Time, Location, Distances, Parameters and details about this quake, recorded: 41 km SSE of Pahala, Hawaii.

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Parameter	Value	Description
Magnitude	2.87 mb	The magnitude for the event.
Longitude	-155.2916718° West	Decimal degrees longitude. Negative values for western longitudes.
Latitude	18.8710003° North	Decimal degrees latitude. Negative values for southern latitudes.
Depth	5.94 km	Depth of the event in kilometers.
Place	41km SSE of Pahala, Hawaii	Textual description of named geographic region near to the event. This may be a city name, or a Flinn-Engdahl Region name.
Time	2017-06-29 14:02:43	Time when the event occurred. UTC/GMT
Updated	2017-06-29 14:06:15	Time when the event was most recently updated. UTC/GMT
Timezone offset	-600	Timezone offset from UTC in minutes at the event epicenter.
Felt		The total number of felt reports
CDI		The maximum reported intensity for the event.
MMI		The maximum estimated instrumental intensity for the event.
Alert Level		The alert level from the PAGER earthquake impact scale. Green, Yellow, Orange or Red.
Review Status	automatic	Indicates whether the event has been reviewed by a human.
Tsunami	0	This flag is set to "1" for large events in oceanic regions and "0" otherwise. The existence or value of this flag does not indicate if a tsunami actually did or will exist.
SIG	127	A number describing how significant the event is. Larger numbers indicate a more significant event.
Network	hv	The ID of a data contributor. Identifies the network considered to be the preferred source of information for this event.
Sources	,hv,	A comma-separated list of network contributors.
Number of Stations Used	46	The total number of Number of seismic stations which reported P- and S-arrival times for this earthquake.
Horizontal Distance	0.3253	Horizontal distance from the epicenter to the nearest station (in degrees).
Root Mean Square	0.36 sec	The root-mean-square (RMS) travel time residual, in sec, using all weights.
Azimuthal Gap	256	The largest azimuthal gap between azimuthally adjacent stations (in degrees).
Magnitude Type	md	The method or algorithm used to calculate the preferred magnitude for the event.
Event Type	earthquake	Type of seismic event.
Event ID	hv61816631	Id of event.
Event Code	61816631	An identifying code assigned by, and unique from, the corresponding source for the event.
Event IDS	,hv61816631,	A comma-separated list of event ids that are associated to an event.

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